Oblon's Post-Grant Practice Group handles all aspects of USPTO post issuance proceedings, including practice before the Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB), and appeals to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC).

Yesterday, at the Practicing Law Institute’s USPTO Post Grant Trials- 2013, the USPTO provided an update on the demand for the post grant patentability trials introduced by the America Invents Act this past September. (AIA). As shown in the slide below, the demand has been quite substantial, especially on the electrical/software side. This is not surprising considering the typical patent troll case is also in these same arts.

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